Deputy Chief Minister Udhyanaidhi Stalin presenting awards to winners of Skill Tamil Nadu 2025 during a function at Valluvar Kottam in Chennai on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Wednesday presented cheques to students who won competitions organised by the Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation (TNSDC), under the Skill...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, while speaking to reporters at the Capitol Hill on Wednesday, said that he poised to meet representatives from Denmark next week to discuss about Greenland. Source link

A court-ordered anti-encroachment drive targeting illegal structures near the Faiz-e-Ilahi mosque at Delhi’s Turkman Gate resulted in violence. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) operation, which began in the early hours, was met with stone-pelting, injuring at least five police personnel. Joint Commissioner of Police Madhur Verma clarified that the demolition followed a High Court...

Venezuela seized tanker (File photo) US secretary of war Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said the Venezuela oil blockade was “in effect anywhere in the world” shortly after American forces, after a high-stakes chase, boarded and seized a Russian-flagged oil vessel, which reportedly was linked to Venezuela.“The blockade of sanctioned and illicit Venezuelan oil remains in...

Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, Mysuru Lok Sabha MP, at the public outreach meeting held in Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency on January 7. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, Mysuru Lok Sabha MP, said that his focus is not only on receiving public grievances but also according priority for their time-bound solutions. The MP...

Piyush Mishra has spent decades being celebrated as a voice of artistic integrity, but his novelised memoir, Tumhari Auqaat Kya Hai, Piyush Mishra, is not interested in celebration. Written against the grain of autobiography, the book dismantles the mythology that has grown around him and replaces it with a quieter, more unsettling inquiry into worth,...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to flag off India’s first Vande Bharat sleeper train from Malda in West Bengal on January 17, with regular passenger services beginning between Howrah and Guwahati on January 18. This launch represents a significant step in modernising overnight rail travel across the eastern region. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced...

Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene, long known for her staunch “America first” rhetoric, has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives seeking to completely terminate the H-1B visa program, a key pathway for skilled foreign workers, a significant number of whom are from India.The legislation, designated HR 6937, was filed in the House on...

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar with district in-charge Minister B. Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan during a meeting in connection with the death of Congress party worker Rajasekhar Reddy in Ballari, on January 6, 2026. Close on the heels of the transfer of the Superintendent of Police of Ballari, just hours after taking charge, following...

Daisy Shah, who co-starred with Salman Khan in Jai Ho, recently criticised members of a political party after a local election campaign allegedly caused a fire in a residential apartment. In two videos shared on Instagram, Shah described the incident and posted footage showing how the fire intensified after a firecracker set off by election...